Alternate names: Zabrze [Pol], Hindenburg [Ger, 1915-1945], Zaborze. This city in Silesia in southern Poland near Katowice. The west district of the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union metropolis with the population of 2 million in the Silesian Highlands on the Kłodnica river (tributary of the Oder) in the Silesian Voivodeship since its formation in 1999, previously in Katowice Voivodeship. The 2008 population of the city was 189,062. [July 2009]
The Lauder Foundation Genealogy Project has lists. See Poland . Also see Bytom and Gliwice (I)
US Commission No. POCE00257 (Names available from Joel Reisner, Poland . In Katowice.The US Commission is not finished rechecking this file. [2000]